Joe Biden Corrects Himself After Saying Russia 'Invaded' Ukraine
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Speaking on CNN, Biden listed overseas crises like the Ebola virus that he claimed the US government had dealt with successfully. Biden said this proved the US public "should not be as anxious as they are" about the world right now.
"When the Russians invaded - crossed the border - into Ukraine. It was, 'My god. It's over,'" Biden said, not even pausing a full second before switching the word "invaded" to "crossed the border."
"We've put it under control," Biden assured.
President Barack Obama's administration initially awkwardly and repeatedly refused to use the word "invasion" - preferring to instead to deploy terms like "incursion" to describe Russian troops crossing the Ukrainian border last summer in support of Moscow-backed separatists.
According to some foreign policy experts, the terminology debate can be important because certain loaded words could demand direct US action when the White House would prefer a more cautious approach.
"Some words have both legal and emotional effects. And in the case of invasion, it's emotional and political," Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told CBC News last August. "I think they don't want to use the word invasion because it makes harder the next question: And what are you going to do about it?"
View Biden's comments on CNN below.
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